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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> -----Original Message</span><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">——</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> From: Thomas Monjalon </span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> Sent: Sunday, 19 July 2026 at 12:53</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> To: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"><a href="mailto:announce@dpdk.org" data-outlook-id="6be14792-e469-43e1-a8ab-5cf7b5d6ee78" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">announce@dpdk.org</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"><a href="mailto:announce@dpdk.org" data-outlook-id="a12e111d-481c-46e6-b2ea-40d22435f917" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">announce@dpdk.org</a></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> Subject: DPDK release candidate 26.07-rc4</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:<br>
> <a href="https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v26.07-rc4" data-outlook-id="70277262-38a6-4800-b481-e238ac17a9f0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v26.07-rc4</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> There are 48 new patches in this snapshot.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> Release notes:<br>
> <a href="https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.html" data-outlook-id="e6c4c842-177a-47e9-90e4-c870c0125ec9" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.html</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> You may share some release validation results<br>
> by replying to this message at <a href="mailto:dev@dpdk.org" data-outlook-id="f322ba03-33a6-48fa-8fc8-3887de39453c" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
dev@dpdk.org</a><br>
> and by adding tested hardware in the release notes.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> Only release notes changes are expected at this stage.<br>
> There are some deprecation notices pending for review.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> This release cycle should be closed in few days.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> Thank you everyone.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The following is a list of tests that we ran on NVIDIA hardware this release:</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Note: all tests are passed, and no critical issues were found.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Basic functionality:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Send and receive multiple types of traffic.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- testpmd xstats counter test.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- testpmd timestamp test.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- RTE flow tests:</span></p>
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<a href="https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads" data-outlook-id="cdcf3236-e239-41fd-9fb4-4f350e56804e" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads</a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- RSS testing.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Checksum and TSO tests.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- ptype reporting.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- link status interrupt using the example application link_status_interrupt tests.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Interrupt mode using l3fwd-power example application tests.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Multi process testing using multi process example applications.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Hardware LRO tests.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Buffer Split.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We don't see new issues caused by changes in this release.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kindest Regards,</span><br>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wael Abualrub</span></div>
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